28 October 2010 - 10 April 2011
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| George Bellows 1882-1925
Dempsey and Firpo, 1924
Oil on canvas
Overall: 51 × 63 1/4in. (129.5 × 160.7cm) Frame: 58 1/4 × 70 1/4 × 3 1/8 in. (148 × 178.4 × 7.9cm).
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Purchase, with funds from
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.95. Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins |
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MODERN LIFE: EDWARD HOPPER AND HIS TIME
October 28, 2010–April 10, 2011
Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time traces the development of
realism in American art between 1900 and 1940, emphasizing the diverse
ways that artists depicted the sweeping transformations in urban and
rural life that occurred during this period. The exhibition highlights
the work of Edward Hopper, whose use of the subject matter of modern
life to portray universal human experiences made him America’s most
iconic realist painter of the 20th century. Drawn primarily from the
Whitney Museum’s extensive holdings, Modern Life places Hopper’s
achievements in the context of his contemporaries—the Ashcan School
painters with whom he came of age as an artist in the century’s first
decades, the 1920’s Precisionist artists, whose explorations of abstract
architectural geometries mirrored those of Hopper, and a younger
generation of American Scene painters, who worked alongside Hopper in
New York during the 1930s. Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time
includes approximately 80 works in a range of media by Hopper and
artists such as John Sloan, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Paul
Strand, Charles Demuth, Guy Pène du Bois, Charles Sheeler, Charles
Burchfield, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Reginald Marsh, and Jacob Lawrence.
The show is accompanied by a 250-page illustrated catalogue with essays
by American and German scholars, produced in conjunction with an
exhibition of the same title which appeared at the Bucerius Kunst Forum,
Hamburg, and the Kunsthal Rotterdam in 2009-10.
Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time is organized by Barbara Haskell and Sasha Nicholas.
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